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It’s All the Cheese that Gave Them the Bad Blood Vessels

May 08, 2007

Using human embryonic stem cells researchers, led by Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology, re-grew damaged mouse and rat blood vessels. Reporting in this week’s online early edition of Nature Methods, Lanza and his colleagues say they used hES cells to generate, in serum-free conditions, a population of cells with both hematopoietic and vascular potential.

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